In Mark Blake’s excellent forthcoming book about the history of Fleetwood Mac, Dreams, there is a great quote from Mick Fleetwood. Their co-founder is looking back at the band’s history and bluntly summarising the almost perpetual state of turmoil in which it seems to have found itself. “This band,” he notes, “is a cauldron of shit.”
It’s a close-run thing, but the period in Fleetwood Mac’s history when the cauldron bubbled most violently may be the one that stretches from the departure of the original frontman, Peter Green, in mid-1970 to the arrival of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham – and with it superstardom – in 1975.
